Stand and deliver
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 
Closing date for submissions to the consultation on the future of tobacco control in the UK is Monday September 8. The consultation document proposes to ban the display of tobacco in shops, and ban tobacco vending machines. Some anti-smoking campaigners want to go even further - plain packaging, for example, for tobacco products.
In recent weeks the anti-smoking movement has come out all guns blazing and is actively encouraging members of the public to write to DH. Cancer Research has launched a campaign called "Out of sight, out of mind" and is asking people to send an email to the Department of Heath. ASH, which is part of the Smokefree Action coalition, is urging people to send an e-card that is available on the SFA website. The aim, of course, is to demonstrate "the strength of public support" for more anti-tobacco measures.
Our job is to encourage people who oppose such policies to stand up and be counted as well. We have created our own e-card and and have launched it today on the Forest website. The DH has confirmed that it will accept responses using this facility, so our next task is to bring it to the attention of as many people as possible.
This is where we need your help. Apart from sending your own e-card, please send the link to family, friends, work colleagues - smokers and non-smokers - anyone who may feel strongly enough to respond to the consultation. It literally takes a matter of seconds. Click HERE, and pass it on.
Note: if you would like to add the banner above to your own website or blog, with a link to the Forest e-card, please get in touch.
Reader Comments (4)
I have linked to it here Simon:
http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=782
That should give us an extra couple of thousand signatures.
Thank you for creating a simple and quick method for people to register their condemnation.
Thanks, Colin, much appreciated.
May I suggest that everybody take a copy to their tobacconists, informing them of the links of Forest and Freedom 2 Choose.
The link above is not working to send a e-card to oppose new tobacco controls.